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We who know, we who feel, are building the great modern state, joining wall to wall and way to way, the new great England rising out of the decaying old... we are the real statesmen I like that use of 'statesmen...." "Yes," I said with many doubts. "Yes, of course...."

Was it strange that Mabel should be tortured with wild doubts, or that her son should believe the step-brother whom he had looked up to with such honest devotion, and the girl he had loved so truly, domestic conspirators who had been deceiving him all the time? Poor Ralph! these doubts fell with cruel force on his generous nature.

Doubts, fears, terrors of conventionalities, awe of his conservative, blood-proud mother in Paris all flew to the winds. Perhaps she caught something of this in his face, for she drew away a trifle and said: "I might have told you long ago, but I wasn't sure of your sympathy." "I want you to be sure of my sympathy in all things." "Ah, but your mind is between!" That phrase brought a shock to Dr.

This view, which I also shared, gave us some common ground, upon which, despite our other differences, we were able to some extent to work together. Regarding Dr. Wilson's personality certain doubts have been and are still entertained by many people. He is the most brilliant and most eloquent exponent of the American point of view.

You humbly trust though you have doubts upon the point that you will have the capacity to grasp it all, when once you shall have arrived at the dignity of a Junior. As for the Seniors, your admiration for them is entirely boundless. In one or two individual instances, it is true, it has been broken down by an unfortunate squabble with thick-set fellows in the Chapel aisle.

The next and greatest contributor to the romantic revival still further modified the methods of her predecessors, and in so modifying them, testified her doubts of their efficacy. Mrs. Radcliffe's plan was not to summon a spectre from his resting-place and to make him move among flesh and blood personages.

Those Christians, who had not seen our Saviour alive from the dead, who had believed on the testimony of his apostles and of the "five hundred brethren," were delivered from all their doubts and fears on seeing his predictions fulfilled, were perfected in faith, and their "hearts established unblamable in holiness."

"Here's a cable blank," says I. "Frame up your call to the Baron while I state the case to Mr. Steele." He couldn't see it at all, J. Bayard couldn't. "What!" says he. "Waste all that money on such a wretch! Why, the woman is unworthy of even the most " "What's that got to do with it?" says I. "Pyramid didn't put that in the bill of partic'lars, did he? Maybe he had doubts about himself.

That block which had fallen on his head, no one knew whence; this boat sinking suddenly, and without apparent cause were they the work of chance alone? The awkwardness of the boatman who had so unexpectedly turned up to offer him his services had filled his mind with strange doubts.

It has already been shown that Cicero, not without many doubts, rejected the first offers which were made to him to join the forces that were so united. He seems to have passed the greater portion of this year in Rome. One letter only was written from the country, to Atticus, from his Tusculan villa, and that is of no special moment.